http://www.cogw.org/bible%20study/facts1.htm
I found this of interest. I remember that back in the '70s there actually was a Bible that was 100 % metric. I was looking for a reference to that when I came across that site. Notice how none of the units are imperial. I found the approximations into both metric and US quite interesting. Example, the mina is equated to 500 g and also to one pound. This would make the BWMA cringe at the thought that the ancients used a pound of 500 g. LOL. Even the gallon is equated to 3.6 litres, making the blood pint of 450 mL a more true pint. I know these are all approximations and not meant to be exact, but it is fun to point these things out to people who claim the bible uses imperial measurements. Euric ----- Original Message ----- From: "David King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2004-08-08 06:00 Subject: [USMA:30675] Re: Stupid anti-metric poem > This is not a forum for disproving the Bible, Scott. > > The original thread was that some people use their belief in God to > prove that we should use imperial units, Euric made a sensible comment > that imperial comes from Babylon, and that the Bible says that we should > use honest weights and measures. > > Now, whether you believe the Bible or not, the fact remains that a large > proportion of the US population considers itself to be Christian. This > is something that cannot be overlooked. > > Thus there will be in the minds of some christians an opposition to > metric as they believe that God gave them the imperial system. To those > people we can say, as Euric did, that the imperial system is pagan, and > that God requires a system of honest weights and measures, which do not > vary, and the only system in the world today that can provide such a > system is the metric system. The imperial system is not accurate enough, > nor consistent between countries, to be used in our modern world. > > The religious argument is important when trying to convert religious > people to accept metric. > > For those who do not believe or read the Bible, then the above would be > meaningless and a different approach would be required. > > But I will add that as a Christian myself, I have never ever felt that > God requires me to use the imperial system, and that He would prefer us > to use a sensible and easy to use system that the whole world uses, just > as the early Church used the Roman Empire to spread the Gospel. But I > won't go any further into religious discussions as this is a forum about > getting the USA to go metric rather than a Christian forum. > > David King > > > > Scott Hudnall wrote: > > > Measurement and mathematics in the Bible should be taken with a > > healthy dose of skepticism and an few mg of salt. There are a lot of > > good examples found at > > http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/science/long.html . > > > > Here are a few of my favorites: > > > > 68. Since the molten sea was round with a diameter of ten cubits and a > > circumference of thirty cubits, we know that the biblical value of p > > is 3. (The actual value is approximately 3.14159.) 4:2 > > > > 21. Noah is > > .... blah blah blah >
